This one is for Thaths, for more reasons than one - we've had this
discussion in the past, including the first FoU camp. It appears work/life
balance is dear to the hearts of many people on this list. Including yours
truly.
Here's one result of that discussion:
On 7/29/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/tstern/2007/07/doh_ten_reasons_homer_simpson.html
Not exactly the model citizen, he. Yet, if he was all that
repugnant, why would he hold our interest for almost 20 years? Sure, you
could argue that
Hi Charles,
My replies below:
On 7/27/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/26/07, Venkatesh Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I cannot think of anything more immoral than patents on surgical
procedures.
Really? Wow. How about the Armenian Genocide, Stalin's starvation of
On Sunday 29 Jul 2007 8:30 pm, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Hi Charles,
My replies below:
I am just wondering if this entire intellectual property hoohah is more
American, and in fact _recent_American_ rather than Western
Knowledge, as in gyan - especially in science, and particularly in
About a year ago, I read the Left Behind series. It was a very nice
work of fiction, at best. After the second or third book, it had a very
strong similarity to all the God Vs Devil (or your favorite demon) like
the numerous Bollywood/vernacular Indian movies. I was literally ROFL
reading the last
On 7/29/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
About a year ago, I read the Left Behind series. It was a very nice
work of fiction, at best. After the second or third book, it had a very
strong similarity to all the God Vs Devil (or your favorite demon) like
the numerous
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:53:51PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
of people in US of A who believe that the Rapture is very near. Anyways,
here is some more proof of that... Unbelievable...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/rapture-ready-the-unauth_b_57826.html
You're really
Thaths wrote:
Some years ago, I read Amar Chitra Katha's Dasa Avatar series. It was
a very nice work of fiction, at best I was literally ROFL reading
the last book because this Kali avatar is supposed to just kill his
enemies in assuming the shape of some weird animal. Whether he talks
to
On 29/07/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some years ago, I read Amar Chitra Katha's Dasa Avatar series. It was
a very nice work of fiction, at best I was literally ROFL reading
the last book because this Kali avatar is supposed to just kill his
I think you mean the Kalki avatar.
For what it is worth, I hear that the good folks from the US PTO will be
training the Indian Patent officers.
Venky
On 7/29/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 29 Jul 2007 8:30 pm, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Hi Charles,
My replies below:
I am just wondering if this
On 7/29/07, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
thousand years, so I don't think we need to worry much that Kalki is
around the corner waiting for us sinners :)
There is an old bearded guy, quite popular in chennai who has declared
himself
Kalki bhagwan... He seems to have quite a following. An
IB Ministry bans Lux Cozy Amul Macho ads
http://www.televisionpoint.com/news2007/newsfullstory.php?id=1185462935
The Lux Cozy Underwear and Amul Macho Underwear advertisements, which are
being
telecast on several television channels, have been considered indecent,
vulgar and
suggestive and thus
On 7/29/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I am not sure what you are implying by this post. But where is the
comparison between a New York Times Bestseller and Amar Chitra Katha?
Apples and Oranges?
Not Apples and Oranges. Peaches and Mangoes, maybe. Both popular
literature
On 7/29/07, Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you mean the Kalki avatar.
Correct. Mea culpa.
It is after all, mythology. The concept of Kalki is probably similar
to Armageddon or Apocalypse or whatever the other mythologies call it.
If I remember correctly the kali yuga
These are brands that I do not recall. But I do recall one underwear advert
that shows a young hunk of man in underwear surrounded by a gaggle of young
women who have presumably planted kisses all over his trunk as evidenced by
lip prints in lipstick on the man's exposed skin and prominently
On 7/30/2007 9:08 AM, shiv sastry wrote:
These are brands that I do not recall. But I do recall one underwear advert
that shows a young hunk of man in underwear surrounded by a gaggle of young
women who have presumably planted kisses all over his trunk as evidenced by
lip prints in lipstick
shiv sastry wrote [ at 09:37 PM 7/29/07 ]:
I am just wondering if this entire intellectual property hoohah is more
American, and in fact _recent_American_ rather than Western
Knowledge, as in gyan - especially in science, and particularly in Medicine
was freely shared in Europe and indeed by
shiv sastry wrote [ at 09:37 PM 7/29/07 ]:
Knowledge, as in gyan - especially in
science, and particularly in Medicine
was freely shared in Europe and indeed by the
US that took over Europe's
mantle in many ways.
It is the US of the last 40 years or so, with
its patent lawyers, that has
On 7/29/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 29 Jul 2007 8:30 pm, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Hi Charles,
My replies below:
I am just wondering if this entire intellectual property hoohah is more
American, and in fact _recent_American_ rather than Western
Knowledge, as
On 7/30/07, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/29/07, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
thousand years, so I don't think we need to worry much that Kalki is
around the corner waiting for us sinners :)
[...]
school is an ardent follower of this chap. Apparently the world is coming
to an
On 7/30/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/29/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 29 Jul 2007 8:30 pm, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
[...]
Patents are intended to increase sharing of knowledge.
Indeed, and all best intentions can be made into a mockery. Are you
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